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Bruins sing Trojan blues
Sports, page 16
Is independence still practical?
Viewpoint, page 4
Gibson is OK Hamlet
Life / Arts, page 7
: trojan
Volume CXIV, Number 15
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 31,1991
War extends to front line, ground troops
The two-week-old Persian Gulf War escalated to its heaviest day of fighting yet as ground combat commenced between Allied forces and Iraqi forces Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. military officers said the 12 Marines who died in combat were the first American ground forces to die in the battle that engaged Allied troops along a 25-mile front extending from Kuwait's A1 Wafra oil field to the abandoned Saudi border town of Khafji.
The battle that started Tuesday night was described by U.S. troops as street fighting" and "hellacious."
According to government sources in London, about 25 Iraqi soldiers were captured and Iraqi fatalities could run into the hundreds, British news agen cy Press Association reported.
Other confrontations included air-sea clashes in the Gulf and Allied aircraft laden with bombs targeting sites deep in Iraq.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf said that Allied forces have continuec to destroy Iraq's arsenal production sites.
According to the British Broadcasting Corp., a new oil slick appeared to have sprung from an Iraqi oil termina' northeast of the Kuwaiti island o Bubiyan.
The conflict is brought closer to the homefront as a Student Senate-spon sored debate will pit the pro-Gulf poli cy side, represented by American Students In Support of Troops, agains the side opposing U.S. policy in the Gulf, represented by Get U.S. Troops Out. The debate will be held tonight in Bovard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Graduation speaker chosen
Ueberroth selected to lead senior procession May 9
By William Merone
Staff Writer
Peter Ueberroth, former Major League Baseball Commissioner, has been selected as the speaker for the university's 1991 Commencement exercises on May 9.
George Abdo, executive assistant to President James Zumberge, described Ueberroth as "a significant public figure who played a major role in the life of the university."
The announcement of Ueberroth's selection was made to the Senior Class Committee on Tuesday, but Abdo said an official announcement will not be made until mid-March. At that time, a list of individuals receiving honorary degrees from the university will also be announced.
The selection process began more than a year ago, Abdo said, with a panel of students and university officials compiling a list of potential speakers. The list was forwarded to President Zumberge, who offered Ueberroth an official invitation.
Peter Ueberroth
Dally Trojan
Prior to becoming baseball's sixth commissioner in March 1984, Ueberroth served for five years as president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. Under Ueberroth's management, the first privately financed Olympics produced a surplus of nearly $250 million, which was used to support youth and sports activities throughout the United States.
Stars and stripes forever
Michelle Inouya / Dally Tro|an
Florinda Tlu-Laurel (left), an undeclared sophomore, and Netle Shinde, a junior majoring in business, combine fund raising and patriotism by selling American flags at Tommy Trojan for Delta Sigma PI, a business fraternity.
While serving as baseball commissioner from 1984 to 1988, Ueberroth was credited with restoring financial health to baseball. During his tenure, record attendance levels were reported for four straight seasons. He also implemented a stringent anti-drug campaign.
When he took office, 21 of 26 clubs were losing money. By Ueberroth's last season, all clubs either broke even or showed a net profit.
One of Ueberroth's last deals with baseball was the negotiation of a four-year, $1.1-million contract with CBS, and a four-year, $400-million cable deal with ESPN.
In 1988, Ueberroth was named to the university board of trustees, where he remains an active member. Abdo could not recall the last time a trustee was invited to be the Commencement speaker, but said he doesn't think it has happened in the past 10 years.
Students' reactions to Ueberroth's selection varied from enthusiastic to unimpressed.
"I think it's neat," said Amy Rourke, a broadcast journalism major and a member of the 1991 Senior Class Committee. "He is someone who is different, someone you wouldn't expect to come speak at a graduation ceremony."
(See Speaker, page 6)
Senate to split, grads will form separate body
By Arwen Adams
Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Senate voted Wednesday night to split the current government structure along graduate / undergraduate lines.
The plan, chosen from seven proposals, was drafted by Senate President Steve Webber, and won a majority of 20 votes, 12 of which were absentee votes.
Webber's plan calls for a complete split from the Undergraduate Assembly, which has met and operated jointly with the Graduate Assembly since 1975. The Council of Graduate Students, as Webber hopes the new organization will be called, will consist of a general council, an executive committee and several standing committees dealing with such items as student life and academic
processing.
(See Senate, page 13)
Vice president responds to dismissal charges
By Alexandra Matisoff
Staff Writer
Student Senate Vice President Sam Sheldon issued a 30-page communique Monday, addressing the Senate floor resolution requesting his removal from office.
In the document — addressed to James Dennis, Vice President for Student Affairs, and sent to 32 other top university administrators — Sheldon defended his actions on all nine of the impeachment charges.
One of the charges stated that Sheldon used his Senate position unfairly, such as in the nomination of his roommate, Jeff Mclllwain, to the position of Human Justice Affairs Committee chairman.
"Nobody is as qualified as Jeff to fill the position,"
Sheldon defended. "When people take the time to review his qualifications, they'll come to the same conclusion."
But Graduate Speaker Suzi Jacobs, one of the authors of the impeachment resolution, took issue with Sheldon's appointment process, which she said did not follow Senate rules.
"Sam will now have to run ads for a week announcing the opening to allow other people to apply," Jacobs said.
On the charge that he represented himself as a spokesperson for the Senate by intervening in an architecture student's appeal for a grade change and then threatening the dean, Sheldon said he acted in a capacity similar to that of a "mayor of a city representing a citizen in a trial," and spent numerous hours of his own time helping the
student gather information for his defense.
But Senate President Steve Webber, also one of the impeachment resolution authors, said Sheldon never mentioned the entire affair to either himself or Jacobs throughout the student's appeals process. He said he felt Sheldon was misrepresenting himself and the Senate by helping the student.
On the charge that Sheldon used Senate stationery to write a letter requesting a personal meeting with former President Ronald Reagan, then destroyed the evidence, Sheldon said a copy of the letter remains in the Senate computer, and that he often used Senate stationery to set up meetings with outside personages, including former
(See Sheldon, page 3)

Bruins sing Trojan blues
Sports, page 16
Is independence still practical?
Viewpoint, page 4
Gibson is OK Hamlet
Life / Arts, page 7
: trojan
Volume CXIV, Number 15
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 31,1991
War extends to front line, ground troops
The two-week-old Persian Gulf War escalated to its heaviest day of fighting yet as ground combat commenced between Allied forces and Iraqi forces Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. military officers said the 12 Marines who died in combat were the first American ground forces to die in the battle that engaged Allied troops along a 25-mile front extending from Kuwait's A1 Wafra oil field to the abandoned Saudi border town of Khafji.
The battle that started Tuesday night was described by U.S. troops as street fighting" and "hellacious."
According to government sources in London, about 25 Iraqi soldiers were captured and Iraqi fatalities could run into the hundreds, British news agen cy Press Association reported.
Other confrontations included air-sea clashes in the Gulf and Allied aircraft laden with bombs targeting sites deep in Iraq.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf said that Allied forces have continuec to destroy Iraq's arsenal production sites.
According to the British Broadcasting Corp., a new oil slick appeared to have sprung from an Iraqi oil termina' northeast of the Kuwaiti island o Bubiyan.
The conflict is brought closer to the homefront as a Student Senate-spon sored debate will pit the pro-Gulf poli cy side, represented by American Students In Support of Troops, agains the side opposing U.S. policy in the Gulf, represented by Get U.S. Troops Out. The debate will be held tonight in Bovard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Graduation speaker chosen
Ueberroth selected to lead senior procession May 9
By William Merone
Staff Writer
Peter Ueberroth, former Major League Baseball Commissioner, has been selected as the speaker for the university's 1991 Commencement exercises on May 9.
George Abdo, executive assistant to President James Zumberge, described Ueberroth as "a significant public figure who played a major role in the life of the university."
The announcement of Ueberroth's selection was made to the Senior Class Committee on Tuesday, but Abdo said an official announcement will not be made until mid-March. At that time, a list of individuals receiving honorary degrees from the university will also be announced.
The selection process began more than a year ago, Abdo said, with a panel of students and university officials compiling a list of potential speakers. The list was forwarded to President Zumberge, who offered Ueberroth an official invitation.
Peter Ueberroth
Dally Trojan
Prior to becoming baseball's sixth commissioner in March 1984, Ueberroth served for five years as president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. Under Ueberroth's management, the first privately financed Olympics produced a surplus of nearly $250 million, which was used to support youth and sports activities throughout the United States.
Stars and stripes forever
Michelle Inouya / Dally Tro|an
Florinda Tlu-Laurel (left), an undeclared sophomore, and Netle Shinde, a junior majoring in business, combine fund raising and patriotism by selling American flags at Tommy Trojan for Delta Sigma PI, a business fraternity.
While serving as baseball commissioner from 1984 to 1988, Ueberroth was credited with restoring financial health to baseball. During his tenure, record attendance levels were reported for four straight seasons. He also implemented a stringent anti-drug campaign.
When he took office, 21 of 26 clubs were losing money. By Ueberroth's last season, all clubs either broke even or showed a net profit.
One of Ueberroth's last deals with baseball was the negotiation of a four-year, $1.1-million contract with CBS, and a four-year, $400-million cable deal with ESPN.
In 1988, Ueberroth was named to the university board of trustees, where he remains an active member. Abdo could not recall the last time a trustee was invited to be the Commencement speaker, but said he doesn't think it has happened in the past 10 years.
Students' reactions to Ueberroth's selection varied from enthusiastic to unimpressed.
"I think it's neat," said Amy Rourke, a broadcast journalism major and a member of the 1991 Senior Class Committee. "He is someone who is different, someone you wouldn't expect to come speak at a graduation ceremony."
(See Speaker, page 6)
Senate to split, grads will form separate body
By Arwen Adams
Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Senate voted Wednesday night to split the current government structure along graduate / undergraduate lines.
The plan, chosen from seven proposals, was drafted by Senate President Steve Webber, and won a majority of 20 votes, 12 of which were absentee votes.
Webber's plan calls for a complete split from the Undergraduate Assembly, which has met and operated jointly with the Graduate Assembly since 1975. The Council of Graduate Students, as Webber hopes the new organization will be called, will consist of a general council, an executive committee and several standing committees dealing with such items as student life and academic
processing.
(See Senate, page 13)
Vice president responds to dismissal charges
By Alexandra Matisoff
Staff Writer
Student Senate Vice President Sam Sheldon issued a 30-page communique Monday, addressing the Senate floor resolution requesting his removal from office.
In the document — addressed to James Dennis, Vice President for Student Affairs, and sent to 32 other top university administrators — Sheldon defended his actions on all nine of the impeachment charges.
One of the charges stated that Sheldon used his Senate position unfairly, such as in the nomination of his roommate, Jeff Mclllwain, to the position of Human Justice Affairs Committee chairman.
"Nobody is as qualified as Jeff to fill the position,"
Sheldon defended. "When people take the time to review his qualifications, they'll come to the same conclusion."
But Graduate Speaker Suzi Jacobs, one of the authors of the impeachment resolution, took issue with Sheldon's appointment process, which she said did not follow Senate rules.
"Sam will now have to run ads for a week announcing the opening to allow other people to apply," Jacobs said.
On the charge that he represented himself as a spokesperson for the Senate by intervening in an architecture student's appeal for a grade change and then threatening the dean, Sheldon said he acted in a capacity similar to that of a "mayor of a city representing a citizen in a trial," and spent numerous hours of his own time helping the
student gather information for his defense.
But Senate President Steve Webber, also one of the impeachment resolution authors, said Sheldon never mentioned the entire affair to either himself or Jacobs throughout the student's appeals process. He said he felt Sheldon was misrepresenting himself and the Senate by helping the student.
On the charge that Sheldon used Senate stationery to write a letter requesting a personal meeting with former President Ronald Reagan, then destroyed the evidence, Sheldon said a copy of the letter remains in the Senate computer, and that he often used Senate stationery to set up meetings with outside personages, including former
(See Sheldon, page 3)